When on Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Mircea Luca wrote, I replied:
Thanks for your reply, Mircea. I doubt that a re-installation of kde would
be useful, though, since kde seems to work fine when I run it from the
xterm of the minimal window manager that comes up when I run startx or xinit.
I'm more interested in the automatic startup of X, and the Stormix X based
login thingie that used to work. I'll give that a try in any case.
Your mention of "hail" was interesting, though. I wonder if changeing
my /etc/apt/sources.list to reference "hail" rather than "rain" might do the
trick? Is "hail" an analog of "potato" and "rain" an analog to "slink"
perhaps?
I've avoided rebooting since I've lost the kde windowmanager after each
reboot in the past. I note that the password protection is still not working
following my latest reboot, however, now that I've figured out the xinit,
/usr/bin/kde work-around.
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:48:35 -0700
> From: Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLU] X startup
>
> Ralph Winslow wrote:
> >
> > I've installed rain a number of times on my system and have had a recurring
> > problem. After upgrading to potato and reboot, when the system comes up
> > agian, X fails to start. When I run startx or xinit, I get an extremely
> > minimal wm which I can't figure out how to use. I've discovered lately
> > that if I run /usr/bin/kde from within the single xterm that comes up,
> > I get the familiar desktop that I can work with, but the X based
> > Stormix login screen is not working.
>
> dpkg --purge kdm
> apt-get install kdm
> or for hail install gdm ,looks better IMHO.
> (choose here to install the package maintainer version if case some
> files are beeing missed by purge).
>
> > Also, the screen saver doesn't lock.
> No clue ,it worked for me in rain ,it still does in hail.
>
> > I've also noticed that changeing /etc/hostname doesn't affect the output
> > of hostname or uname -n which always return storm. What's up with that?
> >
> > TIA for any light you can shed on these things.
> >
>
> Usually it does after a reboot.Don't know why but it always worked after
> a reboot.
>
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